Guy Trosper
Guy W. Trosper ( born March 27, 1911 in Lander, Wyoming, † December 19, 1963 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer, who has been awarded the once posthumously Edgar Allan Poe Award and once for the Oscar for best original story and was three times nominated for the Writers Guild of America ( WGA) awarded prize for best screenplay.
Life
Trosper began his career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood in 1941 with the directed by Robert B. Sinclair Drama I'll Wait For You by Robert Sterling, Marsha Hunt and Virginia Weidler in the lead roles. He wrote the scripts and templates of twenty films.
1951 Trosper was nominated for the first time best for the Writers Guild of America Award (WGA Award) dad Western script, and indeed for Curse of the Blood ( Devil's Doorway, 1950) by Anthony Man with Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern and Paula Raymond.
At the Academy Awards in 1953 he was nominated for the Academy Award for best original story. This nomination was for The Pride of St. Louis ( The Pride of St. Louis, 1952), one directed by Harmon Jones biopic about baseball player Dizzy Dean with Dan Dailey, Joanne Dru, and Richard Hylton.
1963 Trosper was again nominated for the WGA Award for the screenplay for John Frankenheimer's film The Prisoner of Alcatraz ( Birdman of Alcatraz, 1962) with Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden and Thelma Ritter, the nomination took place this time in the category for the bestgeschriebene Drama. He was also the producer of this film.
1966 Trosper was posthumously awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award, along with Paul Dehn for based on the novel by John Le Carré created The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1965) of Martin Ritt with Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner. For this film, he and Paul Dehn beyond 1966 also nominated for the WGA Award for bestgeschriebene Drama.